Alan Freed Quotes
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I think all chefs who pursue great flavor have good ethics.
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I would ask my mother to show me how to walk - and she did show me. That's why I think it's funny when people say, 'Did so-and-so teach you how to walk?' And I always say, 'You must be talking about my mother, because it was my mother who taught me how to walk.'
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I went to the premier of 'Stardust,' which starred Michelle Pfeiffer. I nearly died when I saw her on the red carpet – she's so beautiful.
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My father always told me, 'Before you become a queen, you have to learn how to take care of your own things.' So I knew how to do all of it, but I had never really done it on a daily basis. So I was cleaning houses, and I started working restaurants.
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My childhood was marked by a tension between privilege on the one hand and emotional dysfunction on the other.
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The best comedy is where you attack the strong, not the weak.
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Worry about going out there and making your own legacy.
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I actually got a play from auditioning for something in 'Back Stage' magazine.
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I try to get as close as I can to cleaning out my inbox every night.
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The test of good citizenship is loyalty to country.
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My family lives a pretty normal life.
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Be a good craftsman; it won't stop you from being a genius.
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The latest gospel in this world is, know thy work and do it.
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History provides many examples of democracy crushed by people who said to be the champion of "genuine democracy" and "the people's real meaning". The realization about this may lead us to a defence position that conceals that democracy is an extraordinarily demanding way of rule. It must constantly find new ways to revitalize, to reach out to people and make them active. Dictatorships offers a machinery of obedience, closed and externally well-oiled. Democracy is based on fairness, openness and pulsating life. Therefore it must constantly be won again.
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I love the idea of stepping out of the band situation into a solo world with no boundaries, no expectations, where nothing is out of bounds.
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As your reputation gets bigger, the gaps and chances to go through them get smaller.
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The actor is concerned with his own bit of it, but the director's somehow trying to work the whole thing into a much bigger picture. It's like conducting an orchestra.
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Let’s face it. Rock and Roll is bigger than all of us.
